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Posts Tagged ‘inequality’

         
 

Robodebt: A multi-layered policy failure

Peter Whiteford | June 22, 2021

What happened?

“Robodebt” is the label applied to an Australian government initiative starting in 2016 designed to increase recoveries of “overpayments” made to social security recipients, retrospectively dating back to 2010. The original objective was to recover $1.7 billion over [...]

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The ‘HAVES’ and the ‘HAVE YACHTS’: Public Lecture

David Primrose | November 14, 2019

The ‘HAVES’ and the ‘HAVE YACHTS’: Socio-Spatial Struggles in London between the ‘Merely Wealthy’ and the ‘Super-Rich’

In the decade between 2007 and 2017 London changed fundamentally. This lecture is about how the actions of the [...]

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The political economy of inequality

Adam David Morton | August 9, 2019

How can we close the widening gap between rich and poor? Political economist Frank Stilwell will discuss economic inequality, expose the scale of the problem and provide alternative strategies for a fairer society.

Event detailsDate and time: Tuesday 10 September, 6:00pm – [...]

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Inequality: From Information to Understanding and Action

Frank Stilwell | July 25, 2019

Check out Frank Stilwell speaking on the political economy of inequality during Social Sciences Week 2019 on 10 September, tickets available, HERE.

Why write a new book on economic inequality? During the six years since the French political economist Thomas Piketty [...]

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Book launch: Frank Stilwell, The Political Economy of Inequality

Frank Stilwell | May 6, 2019

When: Wednesday 8 May 2018, 5.30-7.00pm

Where: Sydney Trades Hall Auditorium, 4-6 Goulburn St Sydney

Speakers: Frank Stilwell, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney

Helen Szoke, Chief Executive Officer, Oxfam Australia

John [...]

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Inequality: Who Cares?

Frank Stilwell | February 25, 2019

Concern with economic inequality is a defining feature of the current era.  Prominent international public figures, ranging from Pope Francis to Christine Lagarde, have declared global economic inequality to be the top priority.

What are the preconditions for moving from [...]

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Why the World Bank’s optimism about global poverty misses the point

Alf Nilsen | January 4, 2019

The World Bank’s latest annual report on poverty and shared prosperity has an unsurprisingly positive message that only 10% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty in 2015, which is the most recent year that available data allows for global poverty estimates to be [...]

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Fighting Inequality Must Start in the Labour Market

Jim Stanford | November 26, 2018

Scientific understanding of the consequences of inequality has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years. Thanks to the pioneering work of scholars such as Joseph Stiglitz, Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson, and Tony Atkinson, we know that persistent social and economic inequality exacts an [...]

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  • Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE)
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    • JAPE Young Scholar Award
  • Australian IPE Network (AIPEN)
  • Forums
    • Forums
    • Debating Anatomies of Revolution
    • Debating Debtfare States
    • Debating Economic Ideas in Political Time
    • Debating Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India
    • Debating Social Movements in Latin America
    • Debating The Making of Modern Finance
    • Debating War and Social Change in Modern Europe
    • Feminist Global “Secureconomy”
    • Gendered Circuits of Labour and Violence in Global Crises
    • Scandalous Economics
    • The Military Roots of Neoliberal Governance
    • Politicising artistic pedagogies
  • Literary Geographies of Political Economy
  • Pedagogy
    • Five Minute Honours Theses
    • Piketty Forum
    • Radical Economics Pedagogy
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